I recently saw that in Brazil, people who use VPNs to access X/Twitter after the ban could apparently be fined. I’m no expert whatsoever, but isn’t the whole point of VPNs to encrypt all of your activity? If so, how would the offenders, so to speak, even be caught and fined??
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VPNs have known locations, even things like the TOR network have known entrance nodes. If you’re sending packets to the Surfshark entry point in Brazil, then everyone knows you’re using a VPN. That said, this sort of cat-and-mouse battle is very, very hard to win. It’s also hard to do at scale, particularly since some programs “phone home” through VPN connections. It’s going to be hard to show that you’re using X and not some other app.
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